Biosphere Reserves (6)

The South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme has recently set up the inter￾governmental organization with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Iran as its members. At the 1981 ministerial level meeting, areas were identified for implementation. India was assigned the focal point responsibilities in the
areas of Environment Education, Environmental Legislation and Wild Life Management. At the 1983 Government Meeting of SACEP number of projects have been identified for implementation in the area of Energy, Environmental Science, Legislation and Environmental
Impact Assessment. India has a number of on-going Bilateral Programmes with both developed and developing countries.